 O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from...  Poems - Page 376by Mrs. Hemans - 1855 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-...ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself... | |
 | Christianity - 1844 - 634 pages
...We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. And would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the Soul itself must issue forth The light,... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...graceful wreaths, new-creating that earth which to another is but a bleak and cheerless dwelling-place. ' Would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless, ever anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issun forth A light, a glory, u fair luminous cloud... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher...ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding -garment, our* her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth. Than that inanimate cold world allow'd... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...receive but whal we give, • And in our life alone does nature live : Oui* be her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever -anxious crowd, Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...receive but wh«t we give, And in our Life alone do^s Nnture live : Ours is her weddi ritr-earment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world, allow 41 To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd; Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth A light,... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within. " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-...ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping tho Earth — And from the soul itself... | |
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